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White Plague, Black Labor : Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa /
Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the background of the changing political and economic forces that have shaped South African society from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. These forces have generated a growing backlog of disease among black workers and their families and at the same time have prevented the developm. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780520909120 |